Unit 2.

2-Tighter British Control Leads to

Greater Colonial Resistance
(DisCh3.2)

EQ: What events caused colonists to consider going to war with

England for their independence? (Use details!)
 Q1: Cost of Victory
• F&I War paid for with borrowed money, British now
responsible for repaying large debt while also
governing & protecting colonies

• British began tightening control over colonies to

preserve profits

• Feeling colonists should pay fair share of debt and

protection costs, Parliament passed series of tax laws
starting in 1764

• 1765 - Quartering Act = Made colonists’ house British

troops and provide them food, weapons, and supplies
 Quartering Act Video Clip

• 1 Minute • 1 minute

• Quartering Definition • Quartering Act Declaration

• History Illustrated • Nadenrowe1

•https://www.youtube.com/watc •https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=p37etLg7WOw&t=2s h?v=kykipTpk1YE
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 Q2: Sugar and Stamp Acts

• 1764: Sugar Act – actually lowered tax on items

like molasses and sugar, but improved British
ability to collect the tax (original tax usually not
collected, so this felt like new expense)

• 1765: Stamp Act – Required many written or

printed items (newspapers, legal documents,
playing cards, etc) to be on special paper
stamped in Great Britain which was taxed
 Sugar and Stamp Act Video Clips
1 Minute: Sugar Act Declaration (Nadenrowe1) Additional Resources:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcI16BnXIl0
4 Minutes: Sugar Act Parody
Song (Naden Rowe)
1 Minute: Sugar Song (Bobblehead George)
https://www.youtube.com/w
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdHPcn_j90 atch?v=kxdHoyHpVRI&list=P
LkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqd
aZI53ciu0&index=88

1 Minute: Stamp Act Declaration (Nadenrowe1)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOpgiYCbOuc
10 Minutes: Review from F&I
War through Stamp Act
(Kristina Edgar)
2 Minutes: Stamp Act (Studies Weekly)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmlcpXHvawo https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v
=faSYHAQSDQ8&list=PLkfZO
P2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53
4 Minutes: Sugar & Stamp Acts (Lecture: Start at 30 seconds in, end ciu0&index=11&t=0s
at 3:50)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjObnYk6AVY
 Q3: No Taxation Without Representation
• American colonists had grown accustomed to life without
interference from British

• Had always avoided taxes by bribing tax collectors and

smuggling in goods

• Now British enforcing new tax laws and taxing everyday items

• For years colonists had elected representatives to make laws for

them in colonial legislatures – now Parliament passing laws
affecting them, but colonists not allowed to have
representatives in British Parliament

• “No taxation without representation” became rallying cry

against British attempts to tax them
Video Clip: No Taxation Without Representation

• 2 Minutes

• Parody Song

• Ben Leddy

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCiBjnxh
OM&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu
0&index=65
 Taxing Authority

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NOTE: The colonists did not want to be represented in Parliament,
where their representatives could have been outnumbered.
They believed that only their representatives in their own
colonial legislatures could legitimately tax them.
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 FYI: Important Terms
• Understand not everyone agreed on what colonial interests really were

• Some colonists vowed to keep their allegiance to the British throne,

these people were called LOYALISTS (Loyal to King George III), they
made up about 20% of the population at this point

• Others were neutral and took no side (at this point the largest group,
50-60%)

• Colonists who were upset about British rule and control were known
as PATRIOTS (They thought of themselves as American – not British
and only made up about 20-30% of the population at this point)

• British Troops were often referred to by patriots as Redcoats or

Lobster-Backs due to their uniform containing a red coat
 Video Clip: Why were Red Coats red?

• 3 Minutes

• Simple History

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA3SG7E--P
g&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5fRIecWUQUzJtu4jcyiMUE
&index=11
 Q4: Colonists Respond
• 1765 - Stamp Act Congress = 9 of 13 colonies gather
(first meeting of elected representatives from Just because we don’t tax...
across colonies), demand repeal of Stamp Act and doesn’t mean that we can’t!
state Parliament lacked authority to tax colonies in
the document, Declaration of Rights and Grievances

• Colonists form secret societies (such as Sons of

Liberty led by Samuel Adams in Boston) which
organized protests, boycotts, and publicized
concerns

• Protests succeed, sales of British goods fall,

Parliament repealed Stamp Act but passed
Declaratory Act in 1766 stating Parliament could
still tax them
 Video Clip on Boycotting

• 2 Minutes

• History Illustrated

• https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=EIm208m7Lq8&list=PLkfZOP
2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0&
index=57
Sons of
Liberty
Resistance
Movement(s)

Intimidation and
Mass Protests
 Protesting the Stamp Act Political Cartoon

 Liberty tree as
gallows

Stamp Act poster

Protesters in Boston 
upside down

Customs official tarred

and feathered 
 Video Clips on Sons of Liberty
• 2 Minutes • 2 Minutes

• Bobblehead George • Studies Weekly

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1llyjAoD •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iRyI5r
YYg Lzw
 Review Video: Through Declaratory Act
• 8 Minutes

• Kristina Edgar

• https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM
TLowgpK9A&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5
rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0&index=
7
 Q5: Townshend Acts
• British still need funds to keep
colonies safe and pay back debt

• 1767 Parliament passed Townshend

Acts = special taxes on many everyday
goods imported into colonies (lead,
glass, paper, paint, tea, etc)

• Merchants stop importing goods from

Britain, Daughters of Liberty form to
help make fabric for clothing and find
alternatives to other boycotted items
 Video Clips on the Townshend Acts

• 3 Minutes • 2 Minutes

• Stamp-Townshend Acts • Declaration of Townshend Acts

• History Channel • Nadenrowe1

•https://www.youtube.com/watc •https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=FKGSda3sEVU h?v=LQrkWwLgkxk
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Q6: Boston Massacre
• Tensions between British troops and Boston workers build

• Troops always watching colonists, and stealing their jobs,

colonists tired of it

• March 5, 1770 - Fight breaks out after an argument

between a colonist boy and British solider starts and
onlooker colonists begin to taunt Redcoats

• British soldiers kill 5 Bostonians, event becomes known

by colonists as the Boston Massacre

• First victim, Crispus Attucks, a runaway enslaved African

American considered by some first man killed in fight for
 Video Clips on the Boston Massacre

• 5 Minutes • 2 Minutes • 2 Minutes

• 2 Minutes
• Mr. Betts Class • Studies Weekly • Discovery UK
– a meme • Compass
story •https://www.y Classroom
outube.com/w •https://www.youtub
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Was it really a
“Massacre”?

Why does Paul Revere’s

engraving clearly have an
anti-British perspective?

Why would patriot

colonists newspapers run
the story with this
picture?
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 Q7: The Boston Tea Party
• Many British taxes had been repealed (ended) because
American boycotts hurt British economy

• Parliament tries again and passes Tea Act in 1773

• Act actually makes tea cheaper but gives English control of all
trade of tea

• Throughout colonies colonists respond with protests

• Sons of Liberty in Boston dump British tea that had

arrived by ship into the harbor while dressed as
Indians (symbolizing American roots, not British)

• Event known as the Boston Tea Party

 Video Clips on Tea Acts & the Boston Tea Party
• 2 Minutes: Boston Harbor before the Tea Party (Studies Weekly) Additional Resources:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKQ7mhcaSU&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0
&index=11&t=0s 8 Minutes: Boston Tea Party (Mr.
Betts Class)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6uIC7Q5k-8&
list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5fRIecWUQUzJtu4jcyiMUE&index

• 2 Minutes: Tea Act Declaration (Nadenrowe1) =8&t=0s

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVGiPKizc4
4 Minutes: Tea Act and Boston Tea
Party (History Channel)
• 1 Minute: Boston Tea Party (Simple History) https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=O1Aai9YmQ5Q
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3enVp7RVLFY&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0
&index=60
2 Minutes: Tea Party (Studies
Weekly)
• 2 Minutes: Parody Song (Jam Campus) https://www.youtube.com/watch
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5Nh7mggx0&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0 ?v=Plb2IJR7IX8&t=5s
&index=92

2 Minutes: Tea Party (Bobblehead

• 1 Minute: Dump It Off Parody Song (Ben Leddy) George)
https://www.youtube.com/watch
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7bswVxuKs&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0 ?v=PbEWMDd0rI8
&index=63
 Q8: Intolerable Acts
• Furious about Boston Tea Party, British pass set of
regulations to punish Massachusetts (Coercive
Acts)

• Known as Intolerable Acts by colonists – Acts

created blockade around Boston Harbor closing it
to trade and took authority away from elected
legislature giving new powers to British troops

• Patriot colonists support MA by sending food

and money, many consider Intolerable Acts an
act of war
 Video Clips on the Intolerable Acts Review
• 2 Minutes • 2 Minutes

• Intolerable Acts • Intolerable Acts

Declaration

• Studies Weekly
• Nadenrowe1

•https://www.yo
•https://www.youtu utube.com/wat
be.com/watch?v= ch?v=QHiLvNL_
RwEaHgaR0S8 1c4&t=10s
 Video Clips: Review
3 Minutes: 321 Learning
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnrdWYmZus&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0&index=79

2 Minutes: Mounting Tensions, Studies Weekly

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0_jbyrprIo&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0&index=20

5 Minutes: Mr. Striplin

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAv5UPJvlnc&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0&index=59

4 Minutes: Mr. Maybin’s Retro History Jams - Parody Song

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkGOHQ2QN7E&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0&index=81

3 Minutes: Mr Betts Class – Parody Song

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcDxSICplPE&list=PLkfZOP2_jHb5rBgUzZnUcLqdaZI53ciu0&index=76